Person    | Male  Born 26/12/1716  Died 30/7/1771

Thomas Gray

Categories: Poetry

Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the lesser-known ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ about Horace Walpole's cat. Died Cambridge.



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